UPC 9781616891190 The Toaster Project B007N209P4

ISBN 9781616891190 - The Toaster Project B007N209P4

ISBN 9781616891190 The Toaster Project B007N209P4

Description 9781616891190

Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins-ŠThe Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch. In the end, Thwaites's homemade toasterG«Ų a haunting and strangely beautiful objectG«Ųcost 250 times more than the toaster he bought at the store and involved close to two thousand miles of travel to some o 9781616891190